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{ | 1 | Page 4 i Thursd Oakville- Trafalgar Journal Member Canadi Weekly Newspapers Association Published Every Thursday Morning in Oakville, Ont, by Oakville-Trafalgar Publishers, Ltd. 7 DUNN STREET NORTH S. Casey Wood, Jr. Managing Editor Bill Cotton, Editorial PHONE' 1298 Vincent H. Barney Advertising Manager Assistant Thursday, October 12th., 1950 Let's Holiday From Death Thanksgiving weekend has added a great many deaths to the accident toll for the year. Road acci- dents again contributed largely, and it seems tragic that people who were only intending to spend a happy holiday weekend instead ended in ambulances on their way to hospital or in' funeral homes awaiting burial. The tragic part of such needless loss of life seems pointed up today by the fact that, only a few months ago, we were all afraid that a world war would once more be claiming lives. Today, with the success of the UN forces in Korea indicating we may miss such a holocoaust, there is real cause for thanksgiving. But to the families and friends of those who lost their liv- es on the roads of Ontario there will be no happy memory of this thanksgiving. If anything can be done to raise the sights of all drivers to the importance of always being on the look- out for a possible accident, this should be done no matter what the cost. The provincial government tries 'very hard, with advertisements and roadside signs, but if the total continues to mount some more effective means must be found. One difficulty seems to be that the number of cars on the roads, plus their latent high speed, goes to the head of drivers so that they throw care to the wind and put their feet on the floor. Possibly the time for action along the lines of special license plates for those convicted of speeding or other such offenses has arrived. It might even be worth while, in lives saved, if drivers convicted of speeding were forced to equip their cars with gover- nors so that they could not speed again until they had found that, at the slower rate, they arrived where they were bound in only a few minutes longer time __and that they arrived all in one piece, and did not leave some other person in the hospital because they drove too fast. 7 All drivers are responsible for the accident fig- ures. All drivers can hold them down by expert care at all times, and by making sure their vehicle is in perfect repair at all times. Ontario's weekend holi- days must not continue to be weekends of carnage on our roads. Let every driver resolve to take care, and let the province take any possible steps to im- pliment 'their 'good program of care on the roads that is feasible. Music Hath Charms The musical program which is to be presented this winter by the Home and School Association of the high school is an undertaking which should find fayor with a great many residents. Music lovers are a hardy crew. They'll travel a long way to hear _good music. They will put up with recordings of their fav- orite selections for a long time. But they finally have to attend a concert where the music will be rendered for them by individuals they can see as well as hear. Thus many Oakville musically minded residents travel to Toronto for concerts, and in many cases they bemoan the fact that the trip is a long one, meaning a late return home. But with a season ticket to the series of conceifs offered by the Home and School they can enjoy top-flight artists, and they will have a short trip to make. The first year's program is, naturally an experi- mental one. If it proves successful, as it almost cer- tainly will do, then next year more concerts will be run. The success of the project depends on the sup- port afforded to it by the people it is designed for-- the musically inclined of town. This is the first step toward making Oakville a musically active centre, and with the Arena available for summer concerts it is more than possible that "Pop" concerts may be an Oakville attraction to match Toronto's. The many people who have complained that music was not available in Oakville have their chance to prove they meant what they said. They can secure their season ticket and help to bring music to Oakville: Prevention And Control National Fire Prevention week is intended to 'make us all conscious that fires can be prevented¥if we adopt all possible precautionary steps. But this week always has another impact for us. It brings to our mind the fact that the volunteer' departments: of Oakville and Trafalgar are a very effective fire-fight- ing force. There have been several fires this year which, if not handled so expertly and quickly, could have re- sulted in serious fire loss. The brigades have shown that they are the equal' of any in the land. So during fire prevention week we'd like to suggest that we might all pause to examine our, homes and businesses for possible fire hazards, and to say "Thank you" to the men who volunteer their services so that we can have such a low fire loss record here. "Why can't people be their na- tural selves on, the telephone?" plaintively queried editor Tommy Lee, the former Oakvillan = whol greeleyed a few stones-throws west, in a recent edition of his up- and-coming Ingersoll Tribune. "It seems that just picking up the receiver brings out the worst in some folks." Aint it the truth! As Tommy put it, we seem to shed the ev- eryday personalities that face the world and don sparkling new ones to become telephonic Jekylls and Hydes. And there are as many resulting sound effects as you find in a radio studio and as many types as youll note on a list of Heintz products. There's the carefully cultured type; for instance. The honeyed way in which they hang an e twenty circles on "hell00-00-00," leaves you with the impression that you are being addressed by a U of T grad who has taken a refresher course at Oxford or (Cambridge. Yet actually you are just talking to a lad who flunked out of first form at Oakville-Tra- falgar High and spent the next six years as a short order clerk in a hamburger joint. Then, of course, rootin-tootin-shootin Xz mas | afalgar Tales IT SEEMS TO ME BY BESSIE CAIRNS By P. W. Thompson "Any post-cards for me mam- my?' is the greeting 'I receive from Ginny each day when she comes home from school. I hate to disappoint her but the answer is invariably, "Not yet dear." Some player in "The International Game" has pulled a Malik on my little girl. What's this you say? The great international, game is not child's play. The way Ginny played it, it was. It happened like this, some weeks ago Ginny received a let ter from her young cousin in Mortreal explaining the rules of] theres the guy who John Barleycorn still remains gadgets that one of man's most stubborn ene- mies. Far too many people are still consuming far too much lig: wor, to the ultimate misery of themselves and their families, and the detriment of society as a Whole, One would like to think that the drink problem were being gradually conquered. If it is, the conquest is a very slow one in- deed. So acute is the problem here in Ontario at the present time that the provincial govern- ment, working in close co-opera: ups are impotent loud you'd Sometimes, fettle, you when he's in can tle to smother his PUFFS FROM THE COTTON GIN | seems to feel that telephone pick- really need a shot of Vitamin B. The boys and girls in your office can hear him just as plainly as you can. This chappie really doesn't a telephone at all. He bellows so hear him anyway. top feel your ear- drums vibrating a full eight to the bar, and even holding the instru- ment out at arms length does lit- stentorian "The Great International Game." They were very simple. She was tion with the University of Tor- onto, is launching a campaign HERE'S HEALTH | to send a pretty postcard of her village to a little boy in South Africa thén cross his name off the enclosed list, add her own against alcoholism at a cost oi $150,000 for the first year. Tt should be interesting to fol- low the results of this campaign, IS (cor ed man: eer, dr tones. Yet if you holler bacy ,f him, he becomes surprisedly | old- dignant and hurt, and wants [88 ture, DI know if you think he's deat. [WM for tha At the opposite extreme is |W foes of murmuring mumbler, who iy, 88 err Whe normally enough when you (8 cs, how face to face, but seems to (Ml have be that the telephone pickup is JM medy tI sensitively adjusted that the so of his denture clicking will cop, But out like a clanging anvil at yf thoroug end. So he. whispers gent afl problem begins to feel you are mor of that cally stupid when you fail to [Wl tenper: understand what he is barely gl ticular ing. Yet when you subsconsciy[ Wf Probler sly drop your vocal pitch JW solutior match his, he usually raises jill The De faint coo long enough to spuiiy| Wl Dring : "Speak up, cantcha!" ovil. P Then there's the talker. py fWll '" SOT probably a meek Joe Who gots | hig bowed out of conversations, il "IIL & when he gets on the phone he ll °F A | a verbal field day. He goes on jill "teTP on, and you can lay the phil Le €% down and type out a letter, i) comes, pick it up again and find hl "00 I still pattering on. Just say 'uf probler and no' in the right places, [8 2 Wl he'll go on ad infinitum, be JR tations totally, immune to the broad Ml MINK hints that you want to termini Crating the soliloquy. Hanging up on [J 15 a7 guy doesn't help any, either. pi That just calls right back and tells y} able tT about the blankety blank op ator breaking the connection | organi And don't forget the ebulliy Anony type that is always terribly of nunibe fcitious concerning your will ChOUSa being, as well as that of yWll © t€ wife, uncle, mother-in-law olf © 12 seven children. Actually, this {lll 52" son doesn't give a hoot it yo jul = i all down with a severe case {Ul 1» tS hog cholera, - but he apparen{Sif an ef feels that this opening is a mi scale in every phone conversation. phase Most annoylng to Mons oats (and to me, too) is the delay action caller. Exclusively a (Jill 2.0% inine type, this subscriber half, tops on the torpor trail. Ig "Good morning, the Journal. says, eventually: "Br . . yes wait for her to go ahead, dn and make four copies of the eX-| chien is being conducted along] my pencil -- on. the desk, co GET planatory letter and mail them to] jy tomatic and scientific lines: gently. "Is this the Oakville friends. In due course she should| DU" oe pon the drink evil falgar Journal?" she venuf BEF( receive 265 postcards from alll ool fo Fl ioetic enough, but finally. "Yes, that's right I} parts of the world. TR we turn. Comes another long pac) Chain letters had always Drev-| ceeded mainly in stirring up pub- then she says, somewhat uf iously stopped short at our waste-|jic animosity and political dissen- tan' still: "Tm calling the lo} Ar paper basket and I held no brief| gion and paved the way for cor! nal" Getting @ mite touchy for Pyramid clubs but Ginny's|uption. This new approach to the this time, I retort crisply: "TH is "Oh; 1 know, let's send one to|proplem is a far more intelligent IS the Journal!" Another ui Anna," caused a change of heart|one is object . is the scientific paiise, without station enti c) in this case and for good reasol.| treatment of liquor's worst vie- tion, then she) breathies dificil pore Thereby hangs a tale. ~Anha| ims and the reduction of the ebro ves gC Bu den Wright whose featured article On| torriple ravages of alcoholism, a gojen Youveldone a bit of 1eillliroly Korea you possibly read in thei on) which should meet with al hair pulling over this type, | stock Journal was in Singapore when| g ; = R f {| Tommy is convinced tha, ter in aleve ER] ind Viagier Prrable likeshis |i, dor Graham Ben cove tune she got out and eventually| yy oughout the course of history = : || ed all the untapped persons Per reached Bombay. There she dis-|y. "coq incaleulable misery. It Visits to him cause nO |[ nis telephone would open up, those covered the fate of her father .. .| oo "ined many a, home, blight fears. || would have forgotten the Wh ly fo he was a prisoner in the Phillip- 7 ' i And such early care's |! thing there and then. I'm inc can't ines; but she could get no. infor- (Continued on Page 5) ensuring {| to agree with him. And it wo cash? mation concerning her 18 year old| ------------------------ i have s . fl mana TO ets last meard of In Hong| re-united who might well have Healthy teeth in later ecved Shon amarne AY HR Kong. Anna was desperate, then|Dbeen separated for five long years. ¥ the d she remembered that when Betty| years or more. With the world in Phouetically Yous S88 Supp was 'at school in England she had|chaos I thought it might be a of Natienal Health and Weltare BILL COT teres acquired an American pen-pal. An: good idea to give my little daugh: 29 ce na had her address so in desper-| ter a choice of 265 penpals . . | : is rej ation and hope she contacted this|and just think of the geography lessons and the stamp collection. All for now I'm off to the mail lieved when a Teply came asSUl-| gain with a hope that I can greet ing her that Betty was safe in| Ginny today with a "Yes dear Australia. Two sisters were thusl there are." complete stranger and was Te- Padding Conitriesii On the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Toronto Townsship our contemporary The Port Credit Weekly swelled to 60 pages, including one of the finest sections for children, which tells the story of the township's growth in pictures and special text, we have ever seen. The entire job is well put together, and provides an his- torical document which 'should * be treasured by The Weekly's readers for years to come. The conception of such an issue deserves great credit and Publisher Bert Smith has chalked up a successful piece of work in the weekly newspaper field. than you think." Temperaments into follow, ng school So many people have said it to us, now we're saying it to all we meet, and we think it sounds swell. It goes like this. "Have you had your skates sharpened for Christmas?" We're all going to be gay blades from now on, we guess. Well, 'Oak- ville's never been noted for its sad-sacks, so with the town on skates, certainly we'll be gay. ably and silently. A friend told us he met a man who said of Oakville; "When ever | went through Oakville | always thought of a man dressed in a nice suit, neatly pressed and with a gay tie around his neck--for Oakville is such a lovely town. But | always felt this well-dressed gent was wear- ing a pair of shabby shoes. But not any longer. | drove through the other day and the shoes are all nice and shiny too." That's|a nice way of describing the differ- ence the resurfacing of Colborne Street made to him, don't you think? Age, whether or not has sometimes been While few adults will readily admit it, there's a lot of ed- ucation that they need until the time comes when their heads permanently stop aching. One of the most easily available, and most valuable, forms of adult education is advertising. By at- tention to the advertising stories of manufacturers, we learn of new products to make our lives easier, and of improvements made to old ones. Thus we become educated in Ways to better our living conditions. Read the Journal's advertising columns, therefore, and get a liberal education. from slavery to: time gained by rerfoving clock. TIME AND TEMPERAMENT Two popular mottoes for sun-dials are dis- tinctly opposite in tone. One, which might be used by a government confident of the support of a large majority, is: hours." The other, suitable for use by an oppos- tion, has a chilling sound. It 'states: "It is later expressive of each of the mottoes are to be found everywhere. The senst of time is only gradually acquired. Animals are quite lacking in it. Children at meals with reasonable punctuality, but it is doubtful whether most of them feel for then- selves that time is important. Zz With maturity, a man force of a sterner motto. Hours to be counted ar¢ no longer always sunny. The pressure of hour already wasted prods his conscience. The second- hand on the electric clock, sweeping as inexor as Time's scythe, mows down the minutes as he watches. A slave to clocks calendars, he hears the motto continually, later than you think." Old age, retirement or a'change of occub tion may delver a man from the bondage of tn® brings a philosophical acceptance of the table. Retirement to the country, where the sun rather than the clock is the measurer of time Compromise between J possible and desirable. Normal life in a mechani" ed age cannot proceed 3 but it should not be allowed to dominate all walk ing hours. Hobbies can make sunny the spent away from office or shop. Some fre = "l count. only sunny 1 can be disciplined timetables and turning uw begins: to feel the and "It 18 Ta Po wisdom, usually it brings 1 inevi- oe ea found a releasing proces Some civil service positions canbe' filled with out any unpleasant sense of urgency. g the two motto! without a sense of tim hours edon | C in working hours might a the second-hand from